Chapter Summaries

Shen Long questioned Bold True Lord about a mysterious Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape and suspected it might be a cultivator who had mastered the Heavenly Demon True Scripture. He entered the Thousand Spider Mountain Range to investigate and began hunting Fifth-Rank Monster Beasts.

• Shen Long asked Bold True Lord about the Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape, learning that it was a late-stage fifth-rank beast with several Mountain Giant Ape divine abilities.
• Shen Long returned to Green Plum Courtyard, checked that no one was following him, and decided to investigate the ape in person.
• Shen Long traveled to the Thousand Spider Mountain Range and searched for Fifth-Rank Monster Apes with the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada scouting ahead.
• Shen Long attacked a Three-Colored Wind Butterfly in a miasma-filled valley and killed the fifth-rank mid-stage Monster Beast.
• The Iron Tail Scorpion swallowed the Three-Colored Wind Butterfly's corpse while Shen Long collected its Essence Soul and continued deeper into the mountains.

Two years later, Shen Long hunted Monster Beasts in the Thousand Spider Mountain Range and rescued Mu Ting, a wounded disciple of the Great White Sword Sect. Mu Ting warned him not to trust Bold True Lord’s claim about a fifth rank Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape, and they departed separately.

• Shen Long killed a Fifth Rank Late Stage Three-Eyed Strength Ape and found that its bloodline purity was only four, deepening his suspicion that Bold True Lord had been a cultivator in disguise.
• Shen Long learned from the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada that a wounded Great White Sword Sect disciple was being pursued by Crimson Fire Crows, and he flew to help her.
• Shen Long killed the five Crimson Fire Crows pursuing Mu Ting and collected their Essence Souls and corpses.
• Mu Ting recognized Shen Long, introduced herself, and gave him two fifth rank demon scorpion Inner Cores as thanks for saving her.
• Mu Ting told Shen Long she had not encountered a fifth rank Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape and warned him not to blindly trust Bold True Lord’s words.
• Shen Long advised Mu Ting to leave the dangerous area and flew away; Mu Ting also departed.

Shen Long returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect, handled pill-making and artifact-refining arrangements, and prepared for Yang Tianshan’s two-thousandth birthday celebration. He arrived at the Yang Clan and was personally welcomed by Yang Tianshan.

• Sun Lin told Shen Long that Li Tianxue had been looking for him and that Yang Tianshan had invited him to a birthday celebration three months later.
• Shen Long agreed to refine Ice Soul Snow Lychee Pills for Li Tianxue in exchange for a fifth-rank mid-stage Azure Thunder Eagle Demon Core, then asked Zhao Kun to craft an auxiliary Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure from Three-Eyed Strength Ape eyeballs.
• Shen Long collected alchemy materials from Chen Nan and refined twenty-four High-Grade Medicinal Pills; meanwhile, Mu Ting returned safely to the Great White Sword Sect, where her aunt urged her to break through to the Void Refining stage.
• Shen Long delivered Li Tianxue’s pills, turned in medicinal pills at Golden Flame Peak for Merit Points, and exchanged those points for alchemy materials.
• Shen Long traveled to the Funiu Mountain Range for Yang Tianshan’s birthday celebration, and Yang Tianshan welcomed him into the Yang Clan.

Shen Long visited the Yang Clan and used his Spirit Bird to quiet their guardian bird, impressing Yang Tianshan and the clan. While waiting for Lin, who might possess the Sea-Suppressing Ape Essence Blood he sought, Shen Long overheard the Yang Clan discussing plans to recruit him as a son-in-law and later met several guests at a tea gathering.

• Yang Tianshan showed Shen Long the Yang Clan’s guardian Spirit Bird, whose red owl fell silent when Shen Long’s Spirit Bird cried out.
• Yang Tianshan told Shen Long that Lin had not yet arrived and might bring fifth-rank Sea-Suppressing Ape Essence Blood, then arranged for Shen Long to stay with the clan.
• Yang Tianyan explained the guardian bird’s reaction, and Yang Tianshan and Yang Tianyan discussed hoping Shen Long would become a Yang Clan ally or son-in-law.
• Shen Long used Ten Thousand Li Ear to overhear the Yang Clan’s plans to recruit him as a husband, then rested in his pavilion.
• Yang Yiqing escorted Shen Long to meet several guests, where Xu Qinghuai asked whether he could refine Supreme Pills and Yang Tianshan praised his future prospects.

At Yang Tianshan's birthday gathering, Shen Long agreed to help the Yang Clan reclaim a mine from the Jiang Clan in exchange for access to its treasures and a promise of Monster Ape Essence Blood. The Jiang Clan prepared to defend a mine because a hidden entrance was weakening, and Jiang Yihao decided to join the conflict.

• Shen Long traded ten-thousand-year Soul-Nourishing Wood to Du Xiang for a Fifth-Rank Wood Demon Crystal Core.
• Yang Tianshan learned that the Jiang Clan had seized three Fifth-Rank Mines and killed four Yang Clan Spirit Transmutation cultivators.
• Yang Tianshan asked Shen Long to help drive back the Jiang Clan and offered him five treasures and a bottle of Fifth-Rank Monster Ape Essence Blood.
• Shen Long agreed to reclaim the Li Fire Mine, rejected Yang Yiqing's offer to accompany him, and flew toward the Li Fire Mountain Range.
• Jiang Yueshang explained that the Jiang Clan had seized mines to draw out the Yang Clan while pursuing a weakening hidden entrance.
• Jiang Yihao decided to personally join the effort and ordered Jiang Yueshang to contact their allies by marriage.

Shen Long captured the Li Fire Mine by defeating Jiang Ziqing, Su Mingwei, and their forces, then discovered that the Jiang Clan was prioritizing the distant Cyan Glass Mountain Range. He chose to teleport there and investigate what made it important.

• Jiang Ziqing and Su Mingwei prepared to abandon the Li Fire Mine if the Yang Clan attacked, but Shen Long arrived with his spirit beasts and broke through their formation.
• Shen Long's attacks incapacitated Jiang Zijian and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators, while Jiang Ziqing and Su Mingwei used Substitute Death Talismans to escape their first deaths.
• Shen Long killed Jiang Ziqing and Su Mingwei, captured their Nascent Souls, and learned that the Jiang Clan planned to retreat to the Cyan Glass Mountain Range.
• After finding no explanation for the Jiang Clan's plans by searching their Nascent Souls, Shen Long chose to investigate the Cyan Glass Mountain Range himself.
• Shen Long recalled his spirit beasts and used the Teleportation Array to leave the Li Fire Mine.

Shen Long infiltrated the Jiang Clan’s Cyan Glass Mine and ambushed its Spirit Transformation cultivators while the Jiang Clan and Yang Clan fought over the mine. After escaping the ambush, Jiang Yihao struck at the hidden attacker and revealed Shen Long’s Yellow Giant Ape form.

• Jiang Yihao joined five Spirit Transformation cultivators trying to break a restriction in the Cyan Glass Mine, but the Yang Clan launched a counterattack before they could open it.
• Yang Tianshan led the Yang Clan assault, and Jiang Yihao emerged with five companions to defend the mine as both sides attacked the Formation.
• Shen Long used the Four-Tailed Spirit Fox to control Jiang Zishan and a Jiang Clan cultivator guarding the Cyan Glass Pavilion’s Teleportation Array, then learned that a restriction lay in a nearby valley.
• Shen Long used a Void Spirit Talisman to conceal himself and ambushed Jiang Yihao’s group with the Dragon-Suppressing Seal, killing three cultivators and capturing three Nascent Souls.
• Jiang Yihao escaped the attack, sensed Shen Long’s presence, and struck the concealed spot with a Silver Thunder Pillar, revealing Shen Long as a giant Yellow Ape.

Shen Long helped the Yang Clan crush the Jiang Clan’s attack and revealed that the Jiang Clan had started the war to seize Feather Flying True Lord’s Ascension Cave Abode. He sent Yang Tianshan to guard the mine and left to request Thousand Spirits Sect reinforcements for the approaching Secret Realm.

• Shen Long arrived as a Yellow Giant Ape, and the Yang Clan fighters broke the formation and defeated the Jiang Clan attackers, killing Jiang Yihai and capturing the Green-Shirted Big Man.
• Shen Long pursued Jiang Yihao and returned with his Nascent Soul, explaining that defensive treasures and talismans had protected him from the Heavy Water Thunder Pearl.
• Shen Long told Yang Tianshan that the Jiang Clan sought Feather Flying True Lord’s Ascension Cave Abode, whose Secret Realm entrance was about to appear.
• Shen Long ordered Yang Tianshan to guard the mine and avoid attacking the Secret Realm, then left to report the situation and request reinforcements from the Thousand Spirits Sect.

The Yin Luo Sect and Thousand Spirits Sect mobilized forces to contest a newly discovered Secret Realm believed to be connected to Feather Flying True Lord. Li Dong led Shen Long and a large group of Spirit Transformation Cultivators toward the Cyan Glass Mountain Range as both sects sought allies and prepared to divide the spoils.

• Zhang Mei assigned Xu Jiaojiao to prevent the Thousand Spirits Sect from monopolizing the Secret Realm and sent her toward the Cyan Glass Mountain Range.
• Zhang Mei arranged to seek support from the Blood Flame Sect and the Qi Clan, while Mo Bingbing requested aid from the Nine Flames Sect and the Li Clan.
• Mo Bingbing ordered Li Dong to lead a team to the Secret Realm, and Shen Long volunteered to join him.
• Li Dong summoned his sixth-order Wind Flood Dragon and flew with Shen Long to the Thousand Spirits Platform.
• Li Dong gathered Zhao Tianhu, Lin Yan, Liu Xuan, and more than three hundred Spirit Transformation Cultivators, then set out for the Cyan Glass Mountain Range.

At the Cyan Glass Mountain Range, Shen Long intervened in the battle between cultivators of the Thousand Spirits Sect and the Yin Luo Sect. After Yang Tianshan escaped death with a Life-Substitution Bead, Shen Long destroyed the Green Giant Ape and killed the black-robed elder, while a blood-robed youth recognized Shen Long’s thunder method and Transformation Art.

• Yang Tianshan fought the Green Giant Ape but was overwhelmed by its Corpse Fire and the black-robed elder’s attacks, so his Life-Substitution Bead saved him from being killed.
• Shen Long arrived in Yellow Giant Ape form, blocked the black saber, and told Yang Tianshan to help the other cultivators.
• Shen Long resisted the Black Flame Ghost Fire with Cyan Flame, burrowed underground, and broke both of the Green Giant Ape’s arms before destroying its head and chest.
• The black-robed elder sent a Blood-Colored Mountain Peak crashing down on Shen Long, but a Silver Thunder Pillar knocked it away.
• Shen Long appeared behind the black-robed elder with golden thunder and the Dragon-Slaying Saber, cleaved him in two, and destroyed his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• The blood-robed youth recognized Shen Long’s thunder method and Transformation Art.

Shen Long fought the Blood-Robed Youth and Black-Skirted Woman, using thunder techniques and his spirit beasts to defeat their Blood Fiend Ghosts and capture the woman. The Blood-Robed Youth escaped more than five hundred miles, and Shen Long pursued him with Thunder Escape.

• The Blood-Robed Youth unleashed five Spirit Transmutation Blood Fiend Ghosts, whose attacks shattered Shen Long's protective screen, but Shen Long destroyed one ghost with golden thunder and his Dragon-Slaying Saber.
• Shen Long used gravity, silver lightning, and a piercing hiss to damage the four remaining Blood Fiend Ghosts while his vines, seal, and fire attacks kept the Blood-Robed Youth and Black-Skirted Woman occupied.
• Shen Long cut down the blood-colored Giant Ape and pierced the other three Blood Fiend Ghosts with a Gold-Red Long Spear, turning all four into Blood Beads.
• The Black-Skirted Woman was distracted by a cold female voice and struck by Shen Long's silver lightning and spear; her Nascent Soul was captured in a Cyan Jade Bottle.
• The Blood-Robed Youth escaped with Blood Shadow Escape, and Shen Long detected him over five hundred miles away before pursuing him with Thunder Escape.

Li Dong and a Sixth-Order Wind Flood Dragon rescued a green-skirted woman from a black-shirted youth, but the Blood Flame Five arrived and took the youth’s Nascent Soul. Reinforcements from the Nine Flames Sect, the Li Family, and the Yin Luo Sect gathered as Xu Jiaojiao challenged Li Dong’s claim to the Secret Realm.

• A black-shirted youth used a Fierce Ghost Dharma Aspect to strike down a wounded Cyan Peacock and attack the green-skirted woman, but Li Dong and a Sixth-Order Wind Flood Dragon intervened.
• The Wind Flood Dragon destroyed the youth’s Dharma Aspect and body, but he escaped once using a glowing bamboo fragment before the dragon killed him and his Nascent Soul fled.
• The Blood Flame Five arrived, blocked Li Dong from capturing the Nascent Soul, and took it for themselves.
• Li Dong confronted the Blood Flame Five, while a Red-Robed Elder, a White-Skirted Woman, and a Yellow-Shirted Big Man arrived as reinforcements.
• Xu Jiaojiao arrived with two Blue-Shirted Youths, and a golden-skirted woman and green-shirted youth arrived on a Golden Centipede.
• Xu Jiaojiao told Li Dong that the other groups would not let the Thousand Spirits Sect keep the Secret Realm to itself.

The factions agreed to open the Secret Realm and send Spirit Transformation cultivators inside after discovering Void Refining cultivators could not enter. Shen Long found Enlightenment Fruits and defeated two Cyan Thunder Eagles, then continued searching the Emerald Green Mountain Range.

• Xu Jiaojiao, Li Dong, and the other Void Refining cultivators agreed to investigate the Secret Realm before fighting over it.
• Xu Jiaojiao and Li Dong opened the Cyan Light Gate, which blocked Void Refining cultivators but allowed Spirit Transformation cultivators through.
• Shen Long entered a cave, found an Enlightenment Fruit Tree, and fought two Fifth Rank Late Stage Cyan Thunder Eagles.
• Shen Long and the Thunder Peng killed the Cyan Thunder Eagles, collected their Thunder-Absorbing Beads, and took the Enlightenment Fruits and tree.
• Shen Long released his spirit beasts and headed into a dense forest to continue searching the Secret Realm.

Shen Long subdued a Fifth Rank Spirit Flame in the Crimson Mountain Range and learned of two nearby Crimson Fire Apes. Elsewhere in the Secret Realm, Xu Wei, Chen Qian and Wu Rongrong, and Zhao Yuqian each gathered resources or pursued their objectives.

• Xu Wei killed a fifth-rank Mountain-Shaking Bear and collected its corpse to refine into a corpse puppet.
• Chen Qian gathered Golden Soul Fruits and met Wu Rongrong, then they set out to find the Secret Realm's Control Hub and rendezvous with their companions.
• Zhao Yuqian killed a fifth-rank mid-stage Ice Armor Python and collected its essence soul and corpse.
• Shen Long defeated a Fifth Rank Spirit Flame in the Crimson Mountain Range and used the Dry Sun Cauldron to subdue it.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada told Shen Long about two Crimson Fire Apes in a cave four hundred li west, and Shen Long flew toward them.

Shen Long and Shen Hai subdued two Crimson Fire Apes and learned of a dangerous place in the secret realm before flying onward. Elsewhere, Li Changqing and Li Changyan searched for the realm’s Control Hub, while Liu Xuan and Qi Kesen each defeated powerful beasts and continued looking for their companions.

• Shen Hai drew two Crimson Fire Apes out of their cave, and Shen Long used his bloodline to force them to submit.
• Shen Hai raised one ape’s Bloodline Purity with an Enlightenment Fruit, and Shen Long learned that it knew of a dangerous place before storing both apes in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower.
• Shen Long and Shen Hai departed on a Blue Flying Boat as Li Changqing and Li Changyan hid from a pack of Cyan Demon Wolves and set off to search for the Control Hub.
• Liu Xuan killed a four-winged crimson Fire Crow with his beast claw and Golden Spear, then wondered where Zhao and Ning were.
• Qi Kesen killed a wounded Blue Toad with his Heaven-Propping Giant Sword, put away its corpse, and left to search for Yueming and the others.

Shen Long and Shen Hai broke through the restrictions protecting Flying Feather Garden and began searching the estate. Shen Long found valuable Golden Soul Fruits and Blood Puppet Wood, then entered Flying Feather Pavilion and discovered chambers containing an inactive formation and stored items.

• Shen Long sent the Giant Ape Puppet Beast into the valley, where poison mist, thorny vines, and a Cyan Tree Man attacked it as it tested the estate’s defenses.
• Shen Hai, the Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen, and Shen Long combined their attacks to shatter the Cyan Light Screen around Flying Feather Garden.
• Shen Long recognized the estate as possibly belonging to Feather Flying True Lord and collected Golden Soul Fruits before beginning to transplant the Blood Puppet Wood.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada detected three restricted chambers in Flying Feather Pavilion, and Shen Long broke into the first two.
• Shen Long disabled the formation in the first chamber and found Jade Slips, ores, and a golden Cattail Mat in the second.

Shen Long and Shen Hai searched the Flying Feather Garden, collected rare treasures, and pursued a Five-Colored Insect for its valuable mud. Elsewhere, a Nine Flames Sect elder fleeing a yellow flood dragon was killed by a hidden spatial rift.

• Shen Long and Shen Hai searched the Flying Feather Pavilion, gathered its jade slips and refining materials, and collected five Six-Leaf Golden Soul Lotuses and Mysterious Soul True Water.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada found a Five-Colored Insect, and Shen Long sent the Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen after it.
• The Five-Colored Insect escaped, but the Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen and Spirit Ants recovered a large quantity of Five-Colored Divine Mud.
• A Nine Flames Sect Red-Robed Elder fled a yellow flood dragon into the Wasteland, where a spatial rift split his body and destroyed his Nascent Soul.

Shen Long and his spirit beasts defeated a Blood Flame Sect cultivator who had discovered a Fifth Rank Late Stage Sea-Suppressing Ape. After searching the cultivator’s soul and taking his treasures, Shen Long told Shen Hai where to find the Sea-Suppressing Ape, and they headed southeast.

• A blood-robed cultivator fought Shen Long’s spirit beasts in the Black Dense Forest, but they overwhelmed him with attacks and killed his body.
• Shen Long appeared beside the cultivator’s Nascent Soul, searched his soul, and learned he was Liu Xu’s grand-disciple and had discovered a Fifth Rank Late Stage Sea-Suppressing Ape.
• Shen Long found over seventy million Spirit Stones, four Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures, spiritual herbs, and artifact-refining materials in the cultivator’s Storage Bracelet.
• Shen Long fed the Nascent Soul and corpse to the Iron Tail Scorpion, then reunited with Shen Hai on the Blue Flying Boat.
• Shen Long told Shen Hai the Sea-Suppressing Ape was five hundred thousand li to the southeast, and Shen Hai flew them toward it.

Shen Long used Shen Hai as bait to lure a Fifth Rank Late Stage Sea-Suppressing Ape into a trap and killed it with the Soul-Extinguishing Bead, lightning attacks, and the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove. The chapter then shifted to two Qi Clan members fleeing a swarm of Black Giant Scorpions, only to die in the poisonous mist and transparent threads around a Black Lake.

• Shen Hai distracted the Sea-Suppressing Ape with a false body while Shen Long attacked it from behind.
• Shen Long used the Soul-Extinguishing Bead to damage the Sea-Suppressing Ape's divine soul, then struck it with golden lightning as the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove devoured its miniature form.
• Shen Long collected the Sea-Suppressing Ape's corpse, praised Shen Hai, and left with him on a Blue Flying Boat.
• A golden-robed Qi Clan youth and a Red-Robed Elder fled a swarm of Black Giant Scorpions toward a Black Lake.
• The black mist and transparent threads killed both Qi Clan members, and the Black Giant Scorpions turned back.

Shen Long and Shen Hai bypassed a dangerous desert restriction, only to be ambushed by cultivators from the Qi Clan and Yin Luo Sect. After defeating them, Shen Long obtained a Seven-Colored Lotus Seed, a treasure that could cause spirit creatures to mutate.

• Shen Hai sent a Nascent Soul Talisman Soldier into the Yellow Desert, where its restrictions dragged it down and destroyed it, so Shen Long ordered the Blue Flying Boat to turn back.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada warned of an ambush beneath the forest, and Shen Long and Shen Hai were attacked by a red-skirted Qi Clan woman and a black-robed Yin Luo Sect man.
• Shen Long and his spirit creatures broke the attackers’ sword formation, killed the Qi Clan woman, and pursued the black-robed man.
• The Nine-Headed Ghost Dove and Thunder Peng killed the black-robed man and swallowed his Nascent Soul.
• Shen Long found a Seven-Colored Lotus Seed in a Red Jade Box and identified it as a treasure that could mutate spirit creatures.